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[Remote] Leave Payroll Analyst

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-06-16

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sparrow is a high-tech employee leave management solution dedicated to simplifying the leave process for companies. As a Leave Payroll Analyst, you will prepare employee leave and payroll calculations, collaborate with customers' payroll teams, and contribute to improving Sparrow's product.


Responsibilities

  • Provide internal support for our leave specialists with leave and payroll calculations:
  • Work with the leave specialists by preparing customized and personalized payroll plans and payroll reconciliations for our customers’ payroll teams
  • Act responsively, accurately, and with attention to customers’ payroll deadlines
  • Ensure correct personalized payroll plans are calculated on the Sparrow dashboard
  • Interface and collaborate comfortably with a variety of key parties including: leave specialists, sales and marketing, and engineering teams through various channels (instant message, email, video chat)
  • Effectively collaborate with our customers’ payroll teams to ensure they love Sparrow:
  • Work with onboarding specialists to understand our customers’ payroll needs
  • Assist with the setup of customized personalized payroll plans, payroll schedules, and payroll workflows
  • Share best practices for leave payroll when needed
  • In collaboration with the Sparrow team, build a better product:
  • Collect and share product feedback
  • Identify improvements in payroll calculations software and services
  • Provide input on payroll system integrations
  • Implement process improvements to resolve inefficiencies and address customer pain points

Skills

  • 2+ years of experience in either data-focused operations, payroll, accounting, or bookkeeping
  • Excellent spreadsheet skills. Adept at using Excel functions, formulas, and cell formatting
  • Superior organization skills and detail-oriented. You're able to manage a multitude of tasks with accuracy and attention to deadlines
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Clear, empathetic communicator able to distill complex information to ensure understanding. Is able to work with different communication styles
  • Trustworthy. You act with discretion and can be trusted to handle confidential information appropriately
  • Learner's mindset. Highly self-directed, adaptable, and open to feedback and implementation in a fast paced, always changing environment
  • Someone looking for something new. This is not a traditional payroll role so you will not be doing full-cycle payroll. Instead you will create payroll plans for our customers
  • Able to become a subject matter expert. Your coworkers and Sparrow customers will look to you as a go-to resource for all things payroll

Company Overview

  • Sparrow is an HR technology firm that provides leave solutions to support employees during significant life events. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://trysparrow.com.

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